The Great Alone- Kristin Hannah
The Vietnam War made a lot of people lose their families, land, homes and their identities. The ones who became prisoner of war, most of them lost themselves in the lands they went to fight for their country. The way the Vietnam war changed several men is depicted through the character of Ernt Allbright in this moving piece. Being a prisoner of war made him something that he could not even accept he was, a monster. The story starts with the small Lenora depicting her woes of listening to her cribbing parents all the time about how this place is also not working out for them and they have to move to another place all over again, start afresh. All she can think of how not to be the new kid in school all over again but nothing is in her hands. Allbright has days on which he is the best father ever and on others he could be quite scary. A thirteen year old is not able to comprehend the fear in her mother’s eyes but with the years rolling she understands what it depicts. One